DK_Barons

There is way too much information on the inductees page. Or way too many photos I should say.

On a gigabit internet connection at school it is one of the slowest loading sites I've visited in a long time. They really need to index it into many pages broken up by the alphabet. It doesn't need to be a page for every letter (maybe some), but it can't be one single continuous page. .

It looks really nice but it has some issues.

On 9/27/2023 at 8:27 PM, vicvinegar said:

Is Cash App an option? 

Venmo is...

24 minutes ago, WWFan said:

Cancel. Just click on donation bar. I'm smart sometimes. 

You got it. 

...just quick to ask questions. 🙂 

It's (past) that time again. A new year is upon us. There are teams to support and bills to pay.

Once again, there is now a new Booster group available. The old group is now exposed to the ads on the site.

To be placed in the Booster 2023-24 group and have the ads hidden from view until July 1, 2024 make a donation of $30 or more anytime this fiscal year, and we will manually process your donations as fast as life allows us.

Thank you for all your past and your continued support of the Gridiron Digest.

On 12/8/2022 at 10:54 AM, BDGiant93 said:

Nevermind. It's done! $20 to the shut DT up club.

Thx

On 11/21/2022 at 12:40 PM, BendNotBreak said:

"That was then This is now"

"Stay gold."

On 11/5/2022 at 8:57 PM, BTF said:

Not sure anyone but an administrator really knows for sure. Shoot Irishman a PM, he might be able to give you an answer. He's had bouts with the administration in the past. It's unfortunate, because he supplied a lot of really good content on this forum. 

He took his ball and ran home like the whinny toddler he is. Thinking (hoping) without him we would suffer and beg for his return.

Sorry guys,

I had a busy day and could not make this a priority until after work. 

We are up and going once again, enjoy.

On 8/29/2022 at 7:16 PM, Irishman said:

If you have a news story or link to an actual story, like in the case of Hammond Morton, it's ok to post. But to just post "I heard....." regardless of what the topic is......is not acceptable on this site. 

Rumours has sold 40 million copies world wide since 1977 making it one of the best-selling albums of all time. 

A big thank you to everyone who has contributed this season.

We are getting close to the end of the regular season and are still only about 2/3rds of the way to our goal. It's time to step it up and fund the board for the full year. (That way I don't have to make requests in the spring when the funds our out and it's not quite time to talk about the next season)

On 7/23/2022 at 5:33 PM, ptr said:

Can you confirm that you received my donation through PayPal that shows the transaction being completed on July 13th?  I'm still listed as a 2021-22 donor so I thought I had better check on whether you did receive it. 

Got it, the change to the new group is manual. Thanks

3 hours ago, temptation said:

Come on now.

One was a handful of idiot teenage kids, the other is a cultural/community issue that is life or death. Turn on the news.

I have little faith in many modern administrators but if you think some idiot 15 year old kids’ whose balls have yet to drop dictated policy and future procedure/decision making  for thousands of student athletes, you are more gone than I had originally thought.

By no means excusing it, but not a valid comparison.

Apples to oranges.

What comparison was made? If you say X had an effect on something happening and someone offers Y also had effect of that same thing, nothing about those statements imply X and Y are related at all nor do they make any type of comparison between X and Y besides the stated contribution to some outcome. 

It's (past) that time again. A new year is upon us. There are teams to support and bills to pay.

There is now a new Booster group available. The old group is now once again exposed to the ads on the site.

To be placed in the Booster 2022-23 group and have the ads hidden from view until July 1, 2022 make a donation of $30 or more anytime this fiscal year and we will manually process your donations as fast as life allows us.

Thank you for all your past and your continued support of the Gridiron Digest.

21 hours ago, Impartial_Observer said:

@Bobrefas a person in the know, what is your opinion on the basis for the findings in Roe? Was it solid legal principle or was it flawed? 
FWIW, I don’t think this opens the door to contraception, same sex marriage, etc. Over the years the public pretty much accepts these things. Abortion however has never gained the public support like these other issues. I would venture to guess that at the time of Roe, a majority of Americans would have been against Roe. I would also venture a guess if we could poll the nation right slightly less than a majority are in favor of Roe’s over turning. The bottom line is, in the last 50 years the Public’s opinion hasn’t changed. About half of the nation is pro abortion and about half the nation is anti abortion. And this will continue to be a divisive social wedge issue until that public opinion changes. What the court has done is most like created a situation where we will have a patchwork of ever changing (everything the party in charge changes) abortion laws. This in my opinion could lead to abortion exhaustion where people are just sick of listening to it and time it out. Much like our recent mask/vax nonsense. 

The truth is only about 8% of the nation is against "all" abortion. 

And another 14% are against but are willing to concede in certain situations it should be allowed such as medically necessary, rape, etc.


42% - support abortion without restriction.

24% - support abortion but with restriction such as time limits, waiting periods, mandatory counseling, etc.


and the intelligent 12% left were taught when to keep there mouth shut and had no opinion.

30 December 2004

On 12/2/2021 at 10:13 AM, NLCTigerFan07 said:

Just want to make sure my additional $70 after the state finals was received/confirmed via Venmo. Thank you! @DK_Barons

Yes, sir... confirmed.

1 hour ago, jtsprung said:

How do I get the ads to disappear? I made my $30 donation today, but they are still there, or do I need just be patient?

It's manual, I will go check on it for you.

3 hours ago, DumfriesYMCA said:

 

btw I got a expired certificate today for the site 

Yeah, it expired at 3:00am today.  I installed a new one after lunch today.

22 hours ago, DumfriesYMCA said:

Can someone tag me tomorrow and remind me to become a booster.  I read PayPal wrong and my thing doesn’t process until midnight lol

 

9 hours ago, globemstr3 said:

I wanna help is all. No stones thrown here. Just help maybe. Its apparent you have a domain name. Dont know how many members we have but lets say for chuckles 1500. I think the site uses an onsite Server as Ive seen a request for RAM and such? Have you ever considered transferring it to a Web Site hosting company (other than Go Daddy) as it would eliminate most homegrown costs? Really curious how it costs 3000+ for a basic forum? No harm no foul. Just a question.

I forgot to touch on the costs. Our collation is just over $200 a month. I budget it at $2500 a year. The forum software went up from $170/yr to $240/yr this fall (they hadn't changed the price for e over 10 years though). Our SSL certificate runs $399 every 2 years so $200/yr. We own the .net, .com, .org, and .info URLs which costs about $100/yr to keep the registrations up to date. To keep the hard drives on a 3 year replacement rotation it costs between $100/yr to $150/yr depending on the current market prices. Then there's all the hours I put in that would be billed at $75-$100/hr that I charge exactly $0/yr for 🙂. I'm sure that are a few minor incidentals I'm leaving out but it's pretty easy to see how quickly we reach an annual operating cost north of $3k. 

I don't mind sharing these numbers at all. I think I had a similar post on a recent years post where it was ask. 

I think this thing has far outgrew anything Tim ever imagined when he started it up. 

9 hours ago, globemstr3 said:

I wanna help is all. No stones thrown here. Just help maybe. Its apparent you have a domain name. Dont know how many members we have but lets say for chuckles 1500. I think the site uses an onsite Server as Ive seen a request for RAM and such? Have you ever considered transferring it to a Web Site hosting company (other than Go Daddy) as it would eliminate most homegrown costs? Really curious how it costs 3000+ for a basic forum? No harm no foul. Just a question.

I have been kicked off of 3 different shared hosting companies due to a breach of contract. This forum dominates the processor (actually MySQL is what does it) and it isn't fair to the others sharing the space. 

We had one that was just $7 a month for hosting and their bandwidth caps were large enough based on our past use at the time. so we set up there and didn't last 60 days until I go the eviction email stating we were breaking their network. I think that was the last one before I rented a dedicated server then later we got our own and collocate it in Fort Wayne. 

4 minutes ago, TigerFan20 said:

Hey it works! 
IFCA poll 

5A: 

12. Castle 

4A: 

4. Jasper

6. Memorial 

2A: 

7. Mater Dei

The first beside me to know... This thing is being a pain in my back side this year. Every security fix that drops breaks something when I install it.

On 8/25/2021 at 7:48 PM, psaboy said:

Is snail mail still an option? I still like to support the USPS

sure, just pick the cash/check option and it will give you my mailing address

2 hours ago, foxbat said:

Gonna be a REALLY LONG semester.

I am already felling it. It was a long 8 week summer session. It's the first summer I've worked in a number of years. Right now... I feel it wasn't worth it. 

28 minutes ago, Donnie Baker said:

Math is stupid anyways, I swear to God it is. Who needs a tape measure when you’re packin a 13 inch ruler? I gotta go 

A couple female coworkers were discussing weather this week. One of them said that she liked snow and then started complaining about the weather man promising a foot and then she'd be disappointed because she only got a couple inches. To which I interjected into their conversation, "is this weather man someone you found on Tinder?" To which she seemed confused, but the second lady started choking on her lunch. Swear to God I thought I was going to have to make a call to 911 for her.